Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai: Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550-1700

401 Pages·2016·4.37 MB·English

by  Tonio Andrade

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Sea Rovers, Silver,
and Samurai
Maritime East Asia in Global History,
1550–1700
Edited by Tonio Andrade and Xing Hang
University of Hawai‘i Press
Honolulu
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Andrade, Tonio, editor. | Hang, Xing, editor.
Title: Sea rovers, silver, and samurai : maritime East Asia in global history, 1550-1700 /
edited by Tonio Andrade and Xing Hang.
Other titles: Perspectives on the global past.
Description: Honolulu : University of Hawai`i Press, 2016. | Series: Perspectives on the
global past | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015038338 | ISBN 9780824852764 hardcover : alk. paper
Subjects: LCSH: Merchant marine— East Asia— History. | Navigation— East
Asia— History. | Piracy— East Asia— History. | East Asia— History—16th century. |
East Asia— History—17th century.
Classification: LCC DS511 .S42 2016 | DDC 387.5095/09032— dc23
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Contents
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Introduction: The East Asian Maritime Realm
in Global History, 1500–1700
Tonio Andrade and Xing Hang 1
1 Neither Here nor There: Trade, Piracy, and the
“Space Between” in Early Modern East Asia
Michael Laver 28
2 Envoys and Escorts: Repre sen ta tion and Per for mance
among Koxinga’s Japa nese Pirate Ancestors
Peter D. Shapinsky 38
3 Friend or Foe? Intercultural Diplomacy between Momoyama
Japan and the Spanish Philippines in the 1590s
Birgit Tremml- Werner 65
4 Maps, Calendars, and Diagrams: Space and Time in
Seventeenth- Century Maritime East Asia
Robert Batchelor 86
5 Yiguan’s Origins: Clues from Chinese, Japa nese, Dutch,
Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin Sources
John E. Wills Jr. 114
6 Between Bureaucrats and Bandits: The Rise of Zheng
Zhilong and His Or ga ni za tion, the Zheng Ministry
(Zheng Bu)
Cheng- heng Lu 132
7 The Zheng Regime and the Tokugawa Bakufu: Asking
for Japa nese Intervention
Patrizia Carioti 156
8 Determining the Law of the Sea: The Long History of the
Breukelen Case, 1657–1662
Adam Clulow 181
9 Dreams in the Chinese Periphery: Victorio Riccio and
Zheng Chenggong’s Regime
Anna Busquets 202
10 Shame and Scandal in the Family: Dutch Eavesdropping
on the Zheng Lineage
Leonard Blussé 226
11 Bridging the Bipolar: Zheng Jing’s De cade on Taiwan,
1663–1673
Xing Hang 238
12 The Burning Shore: Fujian and the Coastal Depopulation,
1661–1683
Dahpon David Ho 260
13 Admiral Shi Lang’s Secret Proposal to Return Taiwan
to the VOC
Weichung Cheng 290
14 Trade, Piracy, and Re sis tance in the Gulf of Tonkin
in the Seventeenth Century
Robert J. Antony 312
15 Koxinga and His Maritime Regime in the Pop u lar
Historical Writings of Post– Cold War Taiwan
Peter Kang 335
16 Japan in the Chinese Tribute System
Mark Ravina 353
Glossary 365
Contributors 373
Index 375
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Many people and organizations helped to create this book, which began as
a conference held at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, on October
27–29, 2011. The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the
Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange,
which jointly administer the program for Comparative Perspectives on Chi-
nese Culture and Society, generously provided the seed funding for the con-
ference. Special thanks go to Kelly Buttermore of the ACLS, who proved so
helpful in administering the program and answering our many questions.
Emory University also contributed generous support for the confer-
ence, most notably the Office of the Provost, the Lainey Graduate School of
Arts and Sciences, the East Asian Studies Program, the Department of
History, the Institute for Developing Nations, and, most importantly, the
Halle Institute for Global Learning, whose wonderful and efficient staff
ensured that everything went off without a hitch. Holli Semetko, who di-
rected the Halle Institute, was energetic and efficient and full of good ad-
vice. Evan Goldberg, the Halle’s main or ga nizer, did an amazing job, and
the participants even treated him to a spontaneous round of “For He’s a Jolly
Good Fellow” at the farewell dinner, which he endured with blushing good
humor.
Other people at Emory who deserve a shout- out include Cheryl Crow-
ley, who provided support as director of the East Asian Studies Program;
Allison Rollins of the history department, who handled the finances with
aplomb and good cheer; and colleagues in the Emory history department
and the Emory East Asian Studies Program, who advised and assisted, in
par tic u lar Jeff Lesser and Mark Ravina. History doctoral candidate Ashleigh
Dean also provided useful logistical support and advice. Beyond Emory,
other colleagues provided support, such as Lu Hanchao of the Georgia In-
stitute of Technology and Ghulam A. Nadri of Georgia State University,
who acted as discussants.
In addition, we wish to thank the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Of-
fice of Atlanta, particularly Director Anna Kao and Information Division
Director Yi- hung Tseng, who also provided funding and helped publicize
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the conference nationally and internationally. Appreciation is greatly owed
to the staff of the China Maritime Museum for introducing the conference
participants to their new institution in Shanghai, which promises to become
a lively future platform for academic exchange between scholars and archi-
val resources in mainland China and the rest of the world. Zheng Wanqing,
an illustrious descendant of Zheng Chenggong now residing in Hangzhou,
came all the way to honor us with his presence at the conference.
Special thanks goes to Zhuoxin Miao, a student at Brandeis Univer-
sity, who translated some of the original conference papers from Chinese to
En glish. Max Iascone and Steven Pieragastini, also of Brandeis, undertook
several rounds of meticulous proofreading and editing.
We also wish to thank the participants and authors themselves for
writing such interesting and innovative material. Edited volumes can be
difficult for editors, but our authors provided material of such high quality
(and such cohesion) that it greatly facilitated our work, and, for the most
part, they did it all on deadline— a minor miracle.
Finally, we wish to thank University of Hawai‘i Press, in par tic u lar
Masako Ikeda, Pamela Kelly, and Debra Tang, as well as the anonymous
reviewers whose comments proved so helpful in revising the manuscript.
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